fyi: XSLT was designed by James Clark, based on concepts and experience of XSLT's Scheme-based predecessor DSSSL. So there's your alternate syntax :) In a way, DSSSL has yielded to a XML-ish surface syntax much like JavaScript, also conceived as a LISPy language, yielded to a Java-ish (awk-ish, actually) syntax.
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fyi: XSLT was designed by James Clark, based on concepts and experience of XSLT's Scheme-based predecessor DSSSL. So there's your alternate syntax :) In a way, DSSSL has yielded to a XML-ish surface syntax much like JavaScript, also conceived as a LISPy language, yielded to a Java-ish (awk-ish, actually) syntax.